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Example sentences for: guilt

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I know what you mean about the Michael Clarke Duncan character in The Green Mile . His function is essentially to absorb and process white pain, suffering, disease, and guilt, which he does visibly--which is a novel change from the decades of films in which black characters have done the same thing invisibly (is there much difference between what Duncan does for Hanks here and what Poitier did for Steiger in In the Heat of the Night ?).
It must now receive the fullest and most open inquiry--and any resistance to such investigation will unavoidably look like evidence of guilt."
I intended to convey more or less the same thing you conveyed, that his character was yet another example of a movie's black character functioning as the absolver of white pain and guilt.
Ernest Jones, Freud's English biographer, famously observed that Hamlet, wishing his father dead, was unable to survive his father's actual murder because he was so crippled by guilt.
By the way, over a non-descript editorial, the WP serves up the perfect headline for Clinton's apology-strewn safari: "Guilt Trip."